Article
Complete nucleotide sequences and the characteristics of two hepatitis B virus mutants causing serologically negative acute or chronic hepatitis B.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Mar 1995
Uchida T, Gotoh K, Shikata T
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA was amplified by the polymerase chain reaction from the sera of a patient with acute hepatitis and a patient with chronic hepatitis. Both patients were negative for serum hepatitis B surface antigen and hepatitis B core antibodies and had been previously diagnosed as n...
Topics
- Acute Disease
- Adult
- Aged
- Base Sequence
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Viral
- Female
- Genes, Viral
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis B Antibodies
- Hepatitis B virus
- Hepatitis, Chronic
- Humans
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction